Dave Beckett

Current

• Senior Principal Architect at Yahoo!
• Founder at Redland RDF Libraries Project

Past

• Senior Software Engineer at Yahoo!
• Senior Technical Researcher at University of Bristol, UK
• Senior Research Fellow at University of Kent, UK

Education

• University of Bristol

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Industry

Computer Software

Dave Beckett’s Summary

Designing, building and deploying web systems and standards since 1993 focusing on core web technology, metadata, RDF, Semantic Web and web services. Edited W3C standard RDF recommendations. Creator and maintainer of Redland RDF open source software. Participant in multiple free software/open source and developer community activities. Developed web-scale systems for Yahoo! in content management, metadata and enrichment, local search. Looking to deploy these and other open technologies and ideas, growing them and engaging with and expanding the user community. My focus is technical, not managerial and focuses on system architecture in the web area.

Dave Beckett’s Specialties:

Web architecture, web metadata, RDF (SPARQL, RDFA, GRDDL, Turtle), XML, HTTP REST web services, information architecture, web-scale scaling and resilience design, software architecture, web architecture, software engineering, open source software design, coding (C, perl, java, python, php, ruby, ...), technical writing, professional technical development, presenting technology, developer evangelism.

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